 | Collection - 1758 - 354 Seiten
...but duft or clayi Why think of what pofterity fhall fay ? Her praife, or cenfure cannot us concern, Nor ever penetrate the filent urn. What mean the nodding...nation pays To their unfeeling dead in different ways ! Some in the flower- ftrewn grave the corpfe have lay'd, And annual obfequies around it pay'd, As... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 Seiten
...but duft or clay, Why think of what pofterity fhall fay ? Her praife, or cenfure cannot us concern, Nor ever penetrate the filent urn. What mean the nodding...monument that fpeaks in vain, With all thofe cares, which every nation pays To their unfeeling dead in difPrent ways ! Some in the nWr-ftrewn grave the corpfe... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 412 Seiten
...but duft or clay, Why think of what pofterity fhall fay ? Her praife, or cenfure cannot us concern, Nor ever penetrate the filent urn. What mean the nodding...And marble monument that fpeaks in vain, "With all thole cares, which every nation pays To their unfeeling dead in difPrent ways ! Some in the flow'r-ftrewn... | |
 | Isaac Hawkins Browne - 1768 - 182 Seiten
...duft or olay, Why think of what pofterity mall fay ? Her praife, or cenfure cannot us concern, 1 80 What mean the nodding plumes, the fun'ral train, And...which ev'ry nation pays To their unfeeling dead in diff'rent ways ! i 8r Some in the fiower-ftrewn grave the corpfe have lay'd, And annual obfequies around... | |
 | Soame Jenyns - 1770 - 468 Seiten
...but duft or clay, Why think of what pofterity fhall fay ? Her praife or cenfure cannot us concern, Nor ever penetrate the filent urn. What mean the nodding...plumes, the fun'ral train, And marble monument that fpetks in vain, With all thofe cares which ev'ry nation pays To their unfeeling dead in different ways... | |
 | Soame Jenyns - 1770 - 474 Seiten
...think' of W&at ftofterky foall fay ? Her praife or tenfars cannot us concern, Nor ever pentitaite'cbe filent urn . What mean the nodding plumes, the fun'ral train, And marble monument that fpeaks in vain, Witbsail thofc tarf s which ev'ry nation pays To thea^wftfeeling dead in different ways ! Some Jhthe... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1782 - 438 Seiten
...but dut t or clay, Why think of what pofterity fliall fay ? Her praife or cenfure cannot us concern, Nor ever penetrate the filent urn. What mean the nodding...monument that fpeaks in vain, With all thofe cares, which every nation pays To their unfeeling dead in diff'rent ways! Some in the flower-ftrewn grave the corpfe... | |
 | Soame Jenyns - 1790 - 324 Seiten
...Colligit et cineres, fidaque reponit in urna ; Uc For fame the wretch beneath the gallows lies, 1 70 Difowning ev'ry crime for which he dies ; Of life...fhade ; Others on blazing piles the body burn, And ftore their afhes in the faithful urn ; 190 C 3 But Ut fie relliquiae durando faecula vincant. Quid... | |
 | Soame Jenyns, Charles Nalson Cole - 1793 - 318 Seiten
...Extructa pars rite pyra, cremat infuper artus, Colligit et cineres, fidaque reponit in urna ; Ut C « ] For fame the wretch beneath the gallows lies, 170...plumes, the fun'ral train, And marble monument that ('peaks in vain, With all thofe cares which ev'ry nation pays To their unfeeling dead in different... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 Seiten
...but dull or clay, Why think of what pofterity lhall fay ? Her praife or ccnfure cannot us concern, Nor ever penetrate the filent urn. What mean the nodding plumes, the fun'ral train, And marble momiment that fpeaks in vain, With all thofe cares which ev'ry nation pays To their unfeeling dead... | |
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T' extend our narrow views beyond the tomb, And give an earneft of a life to come : For if when dead we are but duft or clay, Why think of what pofterity fhall fay ? Her praife or cenfure cannot us concern, . 180 Nor ever penetrate the filent urn. 